Overview of Touché 2026: Argumentation Systems
摘要
What is an argument? Is an argument valid? Was a text manipulated to persuade? Since 2020, Touché fosters the development of support-technologies for decision-making and opinion-forming. To this end, the lab brings together researchers that develop systems to automatically answer questions like those above. At CLEF 2026 we do so in four tasks: (1) Fallacy Detection (new task), in which participants determine whether an argument follows a valid argument pattern; (2) Causality Extraction (new task), in which participants extract pro- and concausal claims from text; (3) Generalizability of Argument Identification in Context (new task), in which participants predict whether sentences would be annotated as an argument under different guidelines; and (4) Advertisement in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (2nd edition), in which participants detect and block advertisements in generated text. This paper details these tasks and summarizes the results of Touché 2025.